Buhari too slow to act on issues of security, Nigerian unity —Kwara Speaker

Kwara State House of Assembly Speaker, Dr Ali Ahmad, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of inaction when it comes to issues that would unite and secure the country.

He stated that this was reflected in the recent robbery incident that took place in Offa, Kwara State.

The incident in which about four banks and a police station were targeted left at least 30 people dead.

Lamenting the loss of lives and property, the speaker while speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, said that he was disappointed with the Federal Government’s response to the attacks.

According to the speaker, the response of President Buhari to the attacks, lent weight to the views held by many Nigerians about his inactions to matters of national importance.

Ahmad said that Buhari’s inaction was “reflected in Offa when the incident happened. We were all saddened and grieving, looking for fatherly words to placate our grief. Those words never came until three days after.

“The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, even cut short his journey to come; but the Federal Government that is in control of security apparatus, which lost policemen, if civilians are not worth anything to them, did not act on time.

“I will score the APC or whoever that is at the Federal Government very low. I am in Kwara and if this thing happened and the person that is in control of security did not do anything until 72 hours later, it is an after-thought. I am disappointed. And if you ask me to go with whoever that is, I will think twice.”

On the fight against corruption, the lawmaker accused Buhari of making mess of his administration’s anti-graft campaign to an irredeemable level.

Ahmad, who described President Buhari as the best person that Nigeria has ever had to fight corruption since independence, regretted that he bungled it.

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He said, “The best person that Nigeria has ever had to fight corruption since independence is Buhari but he bungled it. He did! And I cannot see him correcting this.

“I delivered a lecture at the Nigeria Union of Journalists event in Ibadan when this government was less than six months. I told them, you cannot fight corruption in Nigeria the way the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission or the Federal Government was fighting it. From day one, you know that our court system is slow; the Administration of Criminal Justice has reduced it by 40 or 50 per cent but it is still slow.

“You have only four years, how can you place your number one priority on a platform that you know is beyond your control, the judiciary? You cannot fight corruption with the judiciary alone, you cannot.”

 

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